Dr Katie Willis - Australian Crime Commision - From confusion to Fusion: the ACC’s journey towards proactive discovery

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• $14.5 million funding over

four years

• Multi-disciplinary, multi-

agency

• Maximise data holdings

• Facilitate intelligence sharing

• Responsible for maintaining

the national criminal target

picture

• Implementation 2010-14

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1. V is for Volume

Business risk

Ability to prioritise or

measure high value

data

Information overload

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2. V is for Velocity

Inefficient data

collection &

ingestion process

Data ages quickly

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3. V is for Variety

Manual cleansing of

data

Duplication of effort

for each collection

How to integrate

unstructured data?

Inflexible system

structures

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4. V is for Veracity

Untested sources

Conflicting

information

Data quality

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Opportunity cost for partners

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Number of tasks finished Number of tasks in backlog

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“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”

Albert Einstein

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1. Plan, Prioritise &

Direct

2. Collect & Collate

3. Analyse & Produce

4. Report & Disseminate

5. Evaluate & Review

• Measuring:

• what’s the

impact?

• information

value?

• who for?

• Automated

alerting

• Increased

connectivity

(output)

• Increased

connectivity (input)

• More efficient

systems

• Automated risk

assessment

• Increased analytics

• Joining the dots

• Text analytics

• Feedback loops

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